First UK edition, first impression of this novel about life in pioneer society. It was first published in the US earlier the same year. The publisher’s retained copy with their stamp to the front panel of the jacket and front pastedown.

Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in green. With the dust jacket. Endpapers and edges foxed; an excellent copy in the jacket that has sunned spine and edges, short closed tear to front panel and a few nicks to extremities.